Perspectives
The fourth edition of the book used to provide diagnostic labels and descriptions
What is the DSM-IV?
This is the personality disorder that Ted Bundy would have been diagnosed with.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
What often proceeds depression?
What are the events related to work, marriage, and close relationships?
(All three answers are accepted)
An anxiety disorder is usually attributed to high-stress events, or "shellshock."
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
(PTSD is also accepted)
Disorders in which consciousness becomes separated from previous memories & feelings.
What is dissociative disorders?
A legal definition that has raised moral and ethical questions
What is insanity?
A fearful sensitivity to rejection
What is avoidant personality disorder?
The number of weeks of consistent behavior that is required to diagnose Major Depressive Disorder
What is two weeks?
A disorder in which someone is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.
What is general anxiety disorder?
(GAD is also accepted)
A group of severe disorders characterized by delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
What is Schizophrenia?
Assumes that all mental illnesses can be diagnosed based on symptoms and cured via therapy
What is the medical model?
Impulsive behaviors combined with attention-seeking
What is histrionic personality disorder?
The optimistic state which parallels the lethargic ,depressed state of Bipolar disorder
What is mania?
Irrational fear of an object or situation
What is a phobia?
Psychological disorders that take a physical appearance without a bodily cause. Examples are hypochondria and conversion disorder.
What are somatoform disorders?
Assumes that the environment must always play a part in someone's mental status
What is the biopsychological approach?
Expresses eccentric behaviors but also carries a large amount of emotional disengagement.
What is schizoid personality disorder?
The minimum number of signs that are required to diagnose Major Depressive Disorder
What is the number 5?
A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and or actions
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
(OCD is also accepted)
A disorder that inspired the hit movie, Split. A movie in which a man has several personalities that seem to run wild.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
(DID is also accepted)
A disorder that only appears in Japan. It is characterized by social anxiety and a readiness to blush upon eye contact.
(Notes are allowed for this question only)
What is Taijin-kyofusho?
Self-focused and Self-inflating
What is Narcissistic Personality disorder?
Which neurotransmitter is scarce during depression, but abundant during mania?
What is norepinephrine?
Described as a tornado of anxiety
What is a panic disorder?
These are the five subtypes of schizophrenia
What is paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual?